WIN in a Sentence

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For WIN, below is one of 318 sentences:
And England was coming in to help the Confederacy win the war, because the English mills were standing idle for want of Southern cotton.

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 Meanings and Examples of WIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
win
 v.  get by working hard, by being better than others
 n.  a victory
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  And England was coming in to help the Confederacy win the war, because the English mills were standing idle for want of Southern cotton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  For, win or lose, we lose just the same.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  If we win this war and have the Cotton Kingdom of our dreams, we still have lost, for we will become a different people and the old quiet ways will go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  The interior section was what counted, if the South was going to win the war, and Atlanta was now the center of things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  There had been the problem of trying to win Ashley's love and trying to keep a dozen other beaux dangling and unhappy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  Of course, I know the practical in you will always win, but I keep hanging around to see if your better nature won't triumph some day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  If we just stand together and don't give an inch to the Yankees, we'll win, some day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  It was a fight that could not win but it had, at least, postponed the inevitable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  During the babyhood of each child she had been too busy, too worried with money matters, too sharp and easily vexed, to win their confidence or affection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
11  She was almost sure she had "landed" him: a few days' work and she would win her reward.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  It was not, alas, a clean rush of waves they had to win through, but a clogging morass of old associations and habits, and for the moment its vapours were in his throat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  The one thing you can bet on is that no matter what happens to the German people, win or lose, they'll stick by the Kaiser till hell freezes over.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  If you do lose, you feel foolish; and if you win, as soon as you find out how little it is that you've been scheming for, why then you lose worse than ever.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  She could hear the town yelping with it, every soul of them, gleeful at new details, panting to win importance by having details of their own to add.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
16  Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
17  Method will teach you to win time.
18  Either win the horse or lose the saddle.
19  He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
20  In my humble opinion, he will win the election.
21  The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship.
22  Andy Wilkinson chalked up his first win of the season.
23  The Government will have to work hard to win back the confidence of the people.
24  She hopes to win the presidency.
25  If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.
26  He was very unlucky not to win.
27  This win has been a great morale booster.
28  I'm sure we'll win.
29  A clear agenda will win votes in the next election.
30  This win could prove to be a historic turning point in the fortunes of the team.